Review: Chvrches Super-Size Epic Synth-Pop on Third Album 'Love Is Dead'
The Scottish trio hooks up with producer Greg Kurstin and cranks up their sound
Album Reviews
Review: J Balvin's 'Vibras' Is a Warm, Universalist Take on Latin Pop
The Columbian reggaetón hitmaker behind 'Mi Gente' builds an album around that song's internationalist flavor
Review: Shawn Mendes' Third LP Smoothly Transitions Into Grown-Up Pop
The guitar-strumming heartthrob makes moves into more ambitious themes and music
Review: MC Paul Barman's '(((Echo Chamber)))' Is Lovably Eccentric
Nearly 20 years after he became a cult favorite, the word nerd is still an entertaining hip-hop oddball
Review: BTS' 'Love Yourself: Tear' Is K-Pop With Genre-Hopping Panache
The latest from the seven-piece Korean pop ensemble is the first with new material since their breakthrough hit "Mic Drop"
Review: Low Cut Connie Delivers Old-School Rock With Missionary Zeal
The Philadelphia band delivers a widely varying version of vintage wail
Review: Matthew Sweet's Catchy, Heartbroken 'Tomorrow's Daughter'
The veteran alt-rock singer-songwriter delivers Beatles-loving torch tunes for the '120 Minutes' set
Review: Courtney Barnett's Penetrating 'Tell Me How You Really Feel'
The indie-rock singer-songwriter mixes penetrating observation, wry humor and deep empathy on a modest masterpiece of an LP
Review: Parquet Courts' 'Wide Awake!' Is a Fun Punk-Funk Protest Record
The Brooklyn guitar band shakes its money-maker on an LP of woke jams
Review: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks' Warm, Tuneful 'Sparkle Hard'
On his seventh album solo the former Pavement leader spools out golden tunes and warm lyrics
Review: The Body's Powerful, Confounding Heaviness
One of heavy music's most interesting bands delivers heavy music that's difficult to pin down
Review: Jerry Garcia's 'Before the Dead' Is a Fascinating Origin Story
Early Sixties recordings of the future Grateful Dead leader present him as an earnest folk and bluegrass musician
Review: Brent Cobb's 'Providence Canyon' Is an Idiosyncratic Country Gem
An evocative new album from one of Nashville's maverick new singer-songwriters
Review: Ry Cooder's 'The Prodigal Son' Is a Roots Refurbishing
The veteran guitar virtuoso offers an innovative take on traditional music with a contemporary lefty energy
Review: Charlie Puth's 'Voicenotes' Is Warm R&B Nostalgia
The pop crooner brings on Boyz II Men and James Taylor for a valiant stab at R&B classicism